Gov. Gary Herbert on Monday introduced the newest member of his administration, Larry Echo hawk, whom he recently hired as special adviser for Indian affairs.
Echo Hawk is a prominent Democrat, who served as Idaho attorney general and later in the Obama administration as Assistant Secretary of the Interior for Indian affairs. He spent nine years as general counsel for Idaho’s largest tribe, the Shoshone-Bannock of Fort Hall.
“I went to law school for one reason and that was to be an advocate for American Indians,” Echo Hawk, a Pawnee and 1973 graduate of the University of Utah law school, said at the American Indian Caucus Day meeting at the Utah Capitol complex.